The latest RAD Studio C++ Builder 12 Update 1 has been released with a lot of enticing new features, such as the new bcc64x 64-bit CLANG compiler that has VCL/FMX/Skia GUI support with a one-click “64bit Windows Modern” platform option, a very useful Split Editor feature, fully integrated and enhanced Skia Library support with an abundance of support for graphic formats (SVG…
One of the great strengths of RAD Studio is how little you need to do to create incredible apps which can run on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux. The secret sauce to that is the component-based way of programming. These little gems of ready-made functionality which…
Hello developers, here we will explain the container adapters. Before I get into that, as a C++ Builder developer, I should say that these past few weeks have made me so happy that we released the new RAD Studio 12.1. This release has massive C++ upgrades to the new Windows…
Hot on the heels of our announcement that RAD Studio 12.1 is now available we have some more good news; the new Quality Portal is now live and ready for you to use!
What Is The Embarcadero Quality Portal?
The Quality Portal, usually more simply referred to as QP, is a dedicated web site that allows our user community to enter “request tickets”. These tickets take a couple of…
Embarcadero is very excited to announce the release of RAD Studio 12.1 Athens along with Delphi 12.1 and C++Builder 12.1.
RAD Studio 12.1 Athens release primarily focuses on enhancing the new features in RAD Studio 12, adding further refinements and addressing customer…
C++ is one of the most powerful programming languages and it is being improved by every new C++ standard. The “Modern C++” term started with the release of the C++11 standards, and then extended further with the C++14, C++17, and C++20 standards. In the future C++23 is…
Here’s a guest blog post by Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero MVP and US Director of GDK Software. To celebrate the recent π day 2024 with a Delphi flavor I revisited the previous sample I made with Rudy’s Big Numbers library adding the functionality to view the digits of π in real time as they are being generated. Previously it would generate any number of digits you wanted, but you could only…
Hello C++ Developer, this week we have a new meeting about the latest C++ Builder 12 update, and we have 3 new posts to share with you. In these posts, we explain TViewport3D and TMesh components and we create a parametric torus function to draw different torus types in…
How To Use The Firebase API To Add, Read, and Delete Data In A Realtime Document-Oriented Database
March 1, 2024
Currently, the use of a remote database for storing various types of data (such as product and user information for an online store, patient details in a clinic, etc.) is highly relevant. Also, more and more developers want to create cross platform apps to access the data on…
Hello developers, I hope you are all happy and well. This week we have new C++ posts about modern random generators in modern programming today. Since C++11, in addition to rand() and std::rand(), we have new random number generators. These are called Mersenne Twister random generators; mt19937 (std::mt19937) for 32-bit applications and mt19937_64 (std::mt19937_64) for 64-bit applications. In the…
